The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-07-28
State Press Comment.

majority that will forever cause the
present administrationists to keep
their mouths shut"
Louisiana Journal: ''The Big Four
| are giving the Governors friends no
little trouble, but if they were on the
Governors side it would be all right.
Davey and Duffy were fine fellows as
long as they remained McEnery men,
but the Governors friends think. them
horrible since they have declared for
Nichols"
Louisiana Journal 1The people
of Louisiana want Governor who
can rise high enough to conceive that
his first duty is to the people and the
cause of good government and the
welfare of the whole State, and not
one who is content to merely look
after the political interests of his
political and personal friends"
Shreveport Times: ssTo re-elect
McEnery means to keep the same
man in the governorship from 1880 to
1892-just twelve years. And it
must be remembered that in 1880
and again in 1884 the people fought
the denomination of Grant because
his would have been a third term
Isn't it a good thing to clean up the
governmental house oftener than
once in twelve years
Louisiana Journal: "Gen. Nichols
carried out as Governor the platform
on which he was nominated and
elected-he redeemed the pledges of
his party. There are politicians who
regard platforms and party pledges
as only drag nets to catch votes
Gen. Nichols is not this kind of a
politician. Is this the reason why
certain politicians are SO pronounced
in their opposition to his nomina-
tion?"
4 The Ouachita Telegraph, strong
Moncure paper, does not think there
is much chance for McEnery, and
} sums up the situation as follows:
I "Just as the Telegraph stated
! months ago nearly every man, wo
} man and child in Ouachita parish il
I the personal friend of Gov. McEnery
and while many do not approve hi
} administration, they will support hin
from personal considerations. w
cannot agree that Gov. McEnery vii
: gain, or is gaining, strength in nortl
3 Louisiana, especially west of tn
9 Ouachita. With New Orleans agains
s him, then, and a large portion o
= south Louisiana (the Nichols parish
: esq opposed to him, and the middl
hill parishes of north Louisiana il
: favor of third man, we cannot Sc
much chance for Gov. McEnery."
The st. Charles Herald, pape
: that does not favor either Nichols o
b McEnery, asks: " What has Gov
s McEnery done for the good of tn
people at large, during the eigh
years of his administration, to en-
title him to reelection a third time
Has any great measure either of fnan
. cial, commercial or agricultural i'm
portanee been inaugurated since hi
elevation into power, that he can poin
s to as commenting him particnlarl,
i to the good will of the people? Ha
taxation been in any respect lessen
edo Has there been any genuine re
form practiced in the administration
/ of public affairs? We know of none
. He has simply been Governor ant
that is all; and, if rumors are true
G himself governed by a ring of un
r scrupulous politicians having in viev
9 nothing but their personal aggran
dizement. What guarantee have W
:; that his future administration will b
: in any manner different? He ha
been weighed twice in the scales o
public opinion and found wanting
He should now be retired"
) Clinton Patriot Democrat ssCon
temporaries are fond of claiming tn
fight is struggle for supremacy be
tween the sins' and the outs Blu
where the adherents of the presen
! administration are using every posi-
: bic means to perpetuate indefnitel,
personal power of an oligarchy, th
opposition have chosen leader be